Game Invasion: A new term for each level

Chapter 182 The Cave of Ten Thousand Snakes

Red flares flashed across the hazy sky, like a bleeding, one-eyed monster looking down over the entire zoo.

Song Lin's face appeared as pale as paper under the red light.

Her sneakers seemed to ride the wind, making each step effortless and quick.

With Yan Yiming between them, Yang Hui could only see Song Lin's back.

Duan Fan lagged behind, his legs thrashing about, but he couldn't catch up with Yang Hui, who was sandwiched between people, for a while.

They passed through several empty cages and crossed a stinking swamp.

The sight ahead caused Song Lin, who was at the very front, to let out a piercing scream.

Yang Hui quickly ran a few steps, and what he saw made his heart skip a beat.

The ground ahead had sunk, forming a huge sinkhole. Inside, various mutated venomous snakes writhed in dense numbers, their colors vibrant, and the sound of their scales rubbing together was chilling.

At the center of the snake swarm stood a stone platform made of the ribs of a giant beast.

Yan Yiming flipped through the intelligence report: "This is the Cave of Ten Thousand Snakes! The little lion head mask is right here!"

At this moment, Song Lin, who had gone ahead, was slumped on the edge of the stone platform, covering her mouth in terror.

"Help—help me—" Above the stone platform, Zheng Chong, a level 34 man with bulging muscles, was being tightly bound by a terrifying monster.

It was a giant human. Its serpentine body, thirty meters long and as thick as a hundred-year-old piece of wood, was strangely shaped. Its upper body had grown a pair of muscular human arms with its five fingers spread out, gripping Zheng Chong's head tightly.

The snake's tail simultaneously coiled around his limbs like a steel coil.

Zheng Chong's pride in his strength proved utterly futile under the python's strangulation.

His bones made a series of teeth-grinding cracking sounds, his once strong chest cavity was squeezed deeply, and every breath was mixed with blood foam.

at this time!

Duan Fan, who had been silently following behind, suddenly accelerated and stepped in front of Yang Hui.

"Wait!" Duan Fan gasped for breath, his clothes torn and ripped by the Shadow Leopard, making him look disheveled, but his eyes were clearer than ever before.

Yang Hui stopped and looked at him coldly.

Yan Yiming, who was being held under his arm, was a little confused: "Duan Fan, what are you doing? Saving lives is urgent!"

"Save my ass!" Duan Fan lowered his voice, his tone urgent like a machine gun. "Song Lin has already run far away, she can't hear you. Yang Hui, listen, this is a trap. That bastard Luo Che never intended for you to live and get that 150."

Ten thousand!"

Yang Hui raised an eyebrow, signaling him to continue.

Duan Fan wiped the cold sweat from his face and spoke very quickly: "Luo Che has undisclosed internal intelligence from Unicorn Company. On the only way to the Lion King's lair, there are two extremely terrifying dead zones: Butterfly Valley and Thousand-Eyed Peacock Forest. They are illusionary hells specifically designed to target the resilience and intelligence attributes of the soul."

Luo Che calculated that you were a self-taught individual specializing in physical bursts, and your intelligence was definitely a weakness. He wanted you to go ahead and collect items as a scout, and once you reached those two locations, he would use illusion magic to completely cripple you, and then he would go and harvest the Lion King's heart!

Yan Yiming felt a chill run down his spine: "Then this signal flare—"

"He's probably really in trouble, but someone like Luo Che would never signal to save his comrades." Duan Fan chuckled self-deprecatingly. "He signaled to lure you in. He wants to see how many cards you still have up your sleeve."

He's using Zheng Chong's life to test you!

"Why are you telling me all this?" Yang Hui looked at Duan Fan with eyes as sharp as knives.

Duan Fan took a deep breath and pointed in the direction of the shadow leopard's corpse that Yang Hui had just killed instantly: "Because I don't want to go against a monster that can crush a shadow leopard like a chicken. Luo Che is cunning, but he doesn't understand what absolute violence and kindness mean. If I follow him, I'll be schemed to death sooner or later. If I follow you—at least you saved me just now."

Yang Hui remained silent for two seconds, his originally cold gaze softening slightly.

"Understood. I'll make sure you survive this game instance." Yang Hui continued walking. "We'll settle this score with Luo Che after we get the items."

Watching Yang Hui turn away, Duan Fan felt a huge weight lifted from his heart. He was afraid that he had misjudged Yang Hui's character, not only revealing the plan but also making an enemy of Yang Hui, which would leave him in a terrible predicament.

He was gambling, gambling on his own judgment, believing that Yang Hui could turn the tables and suppress Luo Che!

"Where's Luo Che? Where's Old Master Gu?!" Song Lin screamed, clutching another destructive ice crystal scroll in her hand, but she dared not use it, fearing that the aftershocks would send Zheng Chong to his death.

Yang Hui pinched his thumb and forefinger together, placed them under his tongue, and blew a loud whistle that echoed in the deep pit.

Yang Hui lowered his hand, his gaze falling on a dark rock wall above the snake cave, thinking to himself:

They were there watching.

There, two faint auras were hidden very deeply.

Luo Che and Elder Gu stood side by side, coldly watching Zheng Chong being strangled below.

Luo Che was even playing with a newly acquired lion head mask in his hand, which was one of the items needed to pass the level.

They had already obtained the props, but deliberately sent out a distress signal.

"Yang Hui, save him! He must know Luo Che's whereabouts! Zheng Chong can't die!" Song Lin cried out as if grasping at a last straw when she saw Yang Hui arrive, "You killed Shadow Leopard so quickly, you can definitely save him!"

Duan Fan stood behind Yang Hui, watching coldly without saying a word.

Yang Hui ignored Song Lin's pleas, jumped into the deep pit, and slowly walked towards the giant python.

This made Duan Fan above quite anxious. He had already told Yang Hui that this might be a trap! Should he still go down to rescue them?

Shouldn't we be a little selfish at this time?!

He almost blurted out in front of Song Lin that this was an obvious trap.

The python's vertical pupils noticed Yang Hui and let out a deafening hiss.

As if given a command, the surrounding venomous snakes surged toward Yang Hui like a tide.

Golden lightning swirled in Yang Hui's eyes, emitting a faint glow. He hadn't wanted to prematurely reveal his ability to unleash golden lightning, but this swarm of snakes was too troublesome. Yang Hui didn't have an immune constitution; although his attributes were high, being bitten so many times would still affect his subsequent actions.

At this moment! The venomous snakes gradually surrounded Yang Hui. Above, Song Lin gritted her teeth, tore open the ice crystal scroll in her hand, and flew over Yang Hui, exploding in a fan shape in the pile of venomous snakes in front of her.

A blinding, icy blue light burst forth from the scroll.

Song Lin's throw landed perfectly in front of Yang Hui.

The moment the ice crystals surged from the reel, they didn't scatter and splash, but instead followed her predetermined trajectory, advancing forward in a 120-degree fan shape. When they passed Yang Hui's heel, he could even feel the chill licking his calf, but it didn't hurt him in the slightest.

Hundreds of fine ice crystal needles shot out from the shattered fan surface.

The foremost venomous snake was pierced, and the blood mist froze into ice shards before it could dissipate.

The snake fell stiffly, its scales covered in white frost.

The snakes were pinned to the ground, and frost spread from the wounds, freezing the ground within half a meter.

The snake's tail was still thrashing, but the more it struggled, the faster it froze.

The fan-shaped edge was sparsely covered with ice crystals, which left charred frostbite marks as they grazed the snake's body.

The ground froze rapidly, and white mist swirled along the soil.

The air temperature is dropping sharply.

Yang Hui's every breath turned into a cloud of white mist.

He was somewhat surprised that Song Lin had actually helped him through this crisis. He had originally planned to reveal some of his trump cards, but didn't she know that this was to test his strength?

She genuinely cared about Luo Che, after all, she had put in countless efforts for him.

While Song Lin was still heartbroken that her 800,000 yuan had disappeared again, Yan Yiming said from the side, "This 800,000 yuan of yours should be the most worthwhile thing you've ever spent."

Luo Che, disguised within the rock face, frowned, inwardly disgusted, thinking, "This woman! What is she doing! Doesn't she have a brain?"

The notebook in Old Gu's hand glowed; the disguised rock wall was his entry.

As a retired professor, he only joined the intelligence gathering and vulnerability analysis team out of respect for Song Lin, since Song Lin's Song Kang Pharmaceutical Company had used a special medicine to alleviate his wife's pain.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come to this team to play house and accompany Luo Che in the game dungeon.

The reason why Northern Storm is where it is today is largely due to Elder Gu. He is extremely knowledgeable, has studied game dungeons for decades, knows all kinds of dungeon types like the back of his hand, and can always find the most suitable way to break the deadlock.

At this moment, Old Master Gu's eyes were lowered. In his eyes, Luo Che was utterly rotten and completely unworthy of Song Lin, the eldest daughter of Song Kang Pharmaceutical.

She's so young; people's hearts have changed.

If she were Old Master Gu's daughter, she would have been beaten black and blue by him long ago.